Tuesday, November 03, 2009
‘The altercation’
Many of you may have already heard about the WaPo newsroom fistfight. But what caught my attention was the updated response from the editor involved:
Many of you may have already heard about the WaPo newsroom fistfight. But what caught my attention was the updated response from the editor involved:
In the old days, said the 68-year-old, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, the press wouldn't have been so shocked by an expletive-filled, newsroom scuffle. …I’m actually surprised it doesn’t happen more often (knock on wood).
"Back when I got into journalism, the idea that a fistfight in a newsroom would turn into a news story was unthinkable," Allen said when reached Monday evening. "The guys in the sports department at the New York Daily News, they had so many, you wouldn’t even look up."
